A chick sexer spends all day picking them up, spreading the wings feather primaries with a one hand, and dropping the chick into either metal chute A or B.
Seems to me nature mets out plenty of punishment to these people without the intervention of the state…though maybe the animal cruelty laws do need a bit of revisin’…
The comments on the story on USA Toady’s (yes, that was deliberate) site illustrate the paper’s problems with declining circulation and loss of advertising.
Its readers are idiots.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Odd indeed.
Huh?
October 29th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
I think to get semen for commercial use from a farm animal, they need a, err, helping hand
And you think your job sucks.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
And jokes aside, they use sex dolls for horses.
And a friend of mine once had the job of determining the sex of chickens at an egg farm.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
And a friend of mine once had the job of determining the sex of chickens at an egg farm.
I guess 2 peckers= male
October 29th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Actually, they just look at the ends of the feathers on the three day old chick.
http://animalsciences.missouri.edu/reprod/ReproTech/Feathersex/sld001.htm
A chick sexer spends all day picking them up, spreading the wings feather primaries with a one hand, and dropping the chick into either metal chute A or B.
Boring as hell.
October 29th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Seems to me nature mets out plenty of punishment to these people without the intervention of the state…though maybe the animal cruelty laws do need a bit of revisin’…
October 30th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Then there is the cops and K9 story
October 30th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Remind me to not party with this guy.
October 31st, 2009 at 12:58 am
The comments on the story on USA Toady’s (yes, that was deliberate) site illustrate the paper’s problems with declining circulation and loss of advertising.
Its readers are idiots.